Category: Features

by Ben Fong-Torres K&DJ USA Magazine Edition #25 | Nov. 1996 For those of us who love Karaoke, It’s a moment to dread: That first flash, In a movie or a TV show, that we are about to see a scene having to do with Karaoke. Its got to be in a bar or at some big, sloppy party. There’ve …

Ben was a DJ at free-form KSAN in the ’70s, while also writing and editing at Rolling Stone (you may remember Ben from the movie “Almost Famous”). He also hosted Fog City Radio on KQED, authored “The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio” (Backbeat Books, 1998) and wrote Radio Waves — among other things — …

by DJ Mike Fright “A club DJ is a nightclub professional. Just as the chief bartender has special input regarding the club’s liquor order, the club’s DJ should play a major part deciding what lighting and effects to install — and where to install it.” A nightclub without a lightshow is not a nightclub; it’s a bar with a sound …